Garment hanger



l. N. CAVE GARIENT HANGER Oct. 20, 1925.

Filed Jung 16, 1921 awuent o'c- AS6851. IV. CHI/E 3513-1 Sum;

Patented Oct. 20, 1925.

UNITED STATES ISABEL x. cave, or nnooxmm, imw roax.

GABHEIT HANGER.

Application filed June 16, 1921. Serial No. 477,907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Isannn N. CAVE, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to garment hangers, and particularly to that class of garment hangers which are adapted to being manufactured from sheets of card-board, strawboard and the like pulp products by the simple method of cutting and folding said material, and then employing the means of suspension as also a means for maintaining the folded portions in their operative position.

My invention further and more particularly relates to that class of garment hangers, which, in addition to providing an article suitable for use as a garment hanger, there is also provided and combined there with a convenient receptacle for various articles.

The object, therefore, of my invention is to provide an article which combines the following specific advantages:

1. It may be manufactured from inexpensive material which may be suitably creased and folded into the desired form.

2. When thus folded, it may combine both a garment hanger and a receptacle.

3. The means provided for suspending the hanger may also automatically maintain said hanger in an operative condition.

4. Said hanger may be readily unfolded so that when not in use, or when being transported, it will lie flat and thus occupy a minimum of space.

Other objects of my invention hereinafter described are disclosed, and set forth in the appended claims.

I am aware that prior attempts have been made to provide a garment hanger possessing at least some of the above specific advantages, and that in fact, these attempts have involved the adoption of a variety of expedients more or less meritorious, but all having one or more serious disadvantages, such as being complicated, expensive or impractical for the intended purpose.

My invention is simple and inexpensive and combines in the one device, two very useful articles. A preferred form of my invention, including certain modifications,

is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which like letters and numerals will refer to like parts, and in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my new garment hanger in an operative folded condition and with a shallow open-ended receptacle formed therewith.

Fig. is a plan view of Fig. 1, showing any device in an unfolded, or flat, condi- F ig. 3 is a perspective view of my new garment hanger similar to Fig. 1, with the exception that the receptacle 1n this figure is considerably deeper, and end flaps and means for attaching same have been provided, so as to form ends for said receptacle.

Fig. 4. is a plan view of Fig. 3, in an unfolded or flat condition.

My garment hanger may preferably be cut or fashioned from a sheet of card-board, straw-board or other pulp product, the thickness, dimensions and forms varying and depending in each instance upon varymg requirements of the trade.

Where only a shallow, open-ended receptacle is'desired, my invention may be carried out by cutting a sheet of fairly heavy pulp-boar or other suitable material to approximately the dimensions and form indicated by 5, which is then creased or scored as indicated in Fig. 2, along the lines 6 and 7. Suitable holes 8, 9, 10, and 11 are then cut as indicated in the piece 5.

A strong suitable cord or ribbon 12, is then successively passed throu h the holes 8, 9, 10, and 11 respectively. he ends of said cord or ribbon 12, are then firmly joined to each other in a suitable manner, care being observed that the completed continuous cord or ribbon 12, is of ample length to permit the piece 5 to normally lie in a flat condition. All that now remains to convert the piece 5 when thus prepared, is to fold the side portions 14 and 15 along the lines 6 and 7 respectively, so that the said portions will occupy approximately a parallel position relative to each other, and at the same time a position approximately at right angles to the portion 16, thereby forming by said operation the receptacle 17 The continuous cord of ribbon 12, may then be pulled by the loop 18 through the holes 8 and 9 until the cord 12 assumes the position indicated in Fig. 1, when the combined garment hanger and receptacle is ready for use as indicated'in Fig. 1. It is apparent that by sus nding the device by the loop 18, that t is vertical sition of the rtions 14 and 15 forming t e sides is re'adi y maintained and that the combined longitudinal edges 19 and 20 respectively of said side'portions, now folded into upstanding position, form a perfect garment hanger, and that said side portions also COIIlblIle to form the sides of a useful receptacle.

In carrying forward my invention it has occurred to me that the requirements of the trade may call for a considerably deeper receptacle with end flaps detachably secured to the side portions. In Fi 3 and 4 I have shown a modification o my invention fashioned from a somewhat larger plece, 21, of pul -board or other material wh1ch 1s crease or scored for folding as indicated along the lines 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, and 27 respectively. Holes 27, 28, 29 and 30 are then cut as indicated in the piece 21, and a stron cord or ribbon 31, is then successively run through said holes; the ends of the said cord being subsequently joined to each other to form a continuous cord, care being taken that the resulting continuous cord 31, is ample in length to permit the piece 21, to lie flat when in an unfolded inoperative condition.

When it is desired to convert the device from said unfolded inoperative condition to an operative condition, the side portions 32 and 33, are folded along the lines 22 and 7 23 respectively until the said side portions occupy approximately a parallel position relative to each other and at the same time a position approximately at right angles to the portion 34,

The end flap portions 35 and 36 are folded along the lines 24, 25, and 26, 27 respective ly, as indicated in Fig. 3. Any suitable means, such as a plurality of snap buttons 37, may be provided for detachably securing the said end flap portions 35 and 36 to the side portons 32 and 33 respectively, thereby forming the deep closed-ended receptacle 38, as indicated in Fig. 3. By'pulling the cord 31, taut by means of the loop 39, the device is in an operative condition. It is apparent that if the device is suspended by said loop 39, the side portions 32 and 33 will be readily maintained in the desired position, and that the combined longitudinal edges 40 and 41 of the sam will form a perfect garment support while said side portions at the same time combine with the end flaps 35 and 36 to form a very desirable and convenient closed-ended receptacle.

I claim:

1. A one piece garment hanger consisting of a spacing element and two oppositely disposed normally upstanding members integral therewith shaped to conform to the shape of the article to be hung, and a suspension element assing through supporting and automaticaly maintaining sa1 members in said upstanding position, said suspension element passing, from one of said members to the other member.

2. A one piece folding garment hanger consisting of a spacing element and two normally oppositely disposed upstanding members integral therewith shaped to conform to the shape of the article to be hung ada ted to form the sides of a receptacle, an continuous cord passin through said members and movable re atively thereto and adapted to automatically maintain said members in their said normal position when said hunger is suspended by said cord.

3. A folding arment hanger adapted to he manufacturctl in one piece from a sheet of pulp-board by being folded along two longitudinal parallel lines so as to form a spacing element and an upstanding member integral therewith shaped to conform to the shape of the article to be hung at each side thereof, and a continuous cord passing through said members and movable relatively thereto and adapted to automatically maintain said members in an upstanding position when said hanger is suspended by said cord.

4. A folding one-piece combined arment hanger and receptacle adapted to fashioned from a sheet of fibrous material bent along two parallel longitudinal lines so as to form a central portion and two wing ortions integral therewith shaped to con em to the shape of the article to be hun respectively adjacent to and at right ang es to said central portion, and a means of sus ension passing through one of said mem ers and movable relatively thereto and adapted to automatically maintain both of said members in said bent position at right angles to said central portion and thereby form a receptacle whose bottom comprises the said central portion, and whose sides are the said members.

5. A one-piece folding garment hanger com rising a spacing element, a pair of normal y upstanding members connected to said spacing element and integral therewith one of said members being fashioned and adapted to the garment to be suspended, the said element and members connected thereto being adapted to lie flat in an unfolded condition when said hanger is not in use, and a cord passing through said members and movable relatively thereto and adapted to automatically hold said members in a normal upstanding osition.

6. A one piece olding combined garment hanger and receptacle comprising a pair of normally upstanding members connected together y a spacing element and inte al therewith, the upper edges of said mem rs being fashioned and adapted for the suspension of a garment, said element and mem bers being normally adapted for use as a receptacle, said element and members being also adapted to lie flat in an unfolded condition when said hanger is not in use, and a means of suspension passing through one of said members and movable relatively thereto and adapted to automatically maintain said members in said upstanding position.

7. A garment hanger comprising a flat sheet of fibrous material folded along two parallel lines forming a spacing element and a pair of normally upstanding members connected to said spacing element and integral therewith, said. members being shaped to conform to the shape of the article to be hung, one of said members having end flaps connected thereto adapted to overlie the opposite member and to be detachably secured thereto, said spacing element, members and end flaps combining to form a receptacle when in use, and a means of sus ension passing through said members an adapted to automatically support and malntain said members in an upstanding position.

8. A one piece combined garment hanger and receptacle fashioned from a flat sheet of fibrous material having a pair of parallel longitudinal lines scored upon said sheet, a spacing element lying within said lines, a wing portion lying without each of said lines, a hole in each of said wing portions, a suspension element passing through each of said holes and connecting said Wing portions, said suspension element being movable relatively to each of said wing portions and each of said Wing portions being adaptable to being bent into an upstanding position at right angles to said spacing element, said suspension element being adaptable for supporting said combined garment hanger and receptacle and when so employed to automatically support and maintain said wing portions in said upstanding position.

Signed at Borough of Manhattan, New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York this 14th day of June A. D. 1921.

ISABEL N. CAVE. 

